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Investigation Begins into Connecticut Gas Explosion, Sifting Through New Credit Card Rules, Alaskan Village Sues Oil Companies over Climate Change, Do Calories Count?

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A protestor holds an American flag and sign during the tax-day rally on the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party. (AP)

NY Town Vies for 9/11 Trial, Student’s Suicide Raises Concerns Over Bullying Prevention, Tea Party Convention Kicks Off, The Life and Times of the NFL’s Bert Bell, Music From ‘Who Dat’ Nation

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A man drives a Toyota Motor Corp.'s "Prius Plug-in Hybrid" during a test drive event at a Toyota facility in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009.  (AP)

Scott Brown Jetting to Washington, Using the Airwaves for Political Force, Car Talk, Can Wikipedia Keep Growing?, ‘Love Letters and Some Not So Lovely Letters’

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Yemeni Tankers Cleared for Boston, Al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, and the Internet, Iran Launches Research Rocket, Crisis Camps Help in Haiti, Author Wells Tower

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Scaling Back Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sifting Through the Tangled Process of Adopting from Haiti, Preserving Northern Forests, Navigating the Roads of Gaza, And the Nominees Are…

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A Toyota dealer is seen in Kamp-Lintfort, western Germany, Friday Jan.29, 2010. Toyota's still-expanding recalls over faulty gas pedals and an unprecedented decision to stop selling and building some of its top-selling models in the U.S. are costing the carmaker dearly: industry analysts are already forecasting its market share will sink to its lowest since 2006. Japanese Trade Minister Masayuki Naoshima sounded a note of alarm Friday about the tarnished reputation of Toyota Motor Corp., the nation's iconic automaker. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Toyota Announces Fix, Terrorism Trials, Maine Lawmaker Pushes for Cellphone Warning Label, GOP Targets President Obama’s Former Senate Seat, Contemplating fatherhood, family dysfunction, and Abu Ghraib

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Matenwa 1st and 2nd graders with 'Mother Tongue Books' from Fayerweather.

Tony Blair Testifies about Run-up to Iraq War, What Could Work in Afghanistan?, Schools Move Recess — Before Lunch, Massachusetts School Connects with Haiti through Book Exchange, John Singer Sargent and the Painting that Made His Reputation

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Big Proposals for Small Businesses, A Small Business Reflects on President’s Promises, Amid Economic Doom, Irish Emigrate Again, Amid Economic Doom, Irish Emigrate Again, Coming Soon to the U.S.–Scottish Haggis, Remembering Historian Howard Zinn

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French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez conducts the Lucerne Festival Acadamy Orchestra during a concert at the Lucerne Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, Thursday, September 14, 2006. (KEYSTONE/Sigi Tischler)

How does the State of the Union look to Job Seekers in Rhode Island?, Previewing the State of the Union, Toyota Announces Recalls: What to Do if Your Car’s On List, Emotional Medicine: A Father Takes Extraordinary Measures to Save Children, Pierre Boulez

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This Jan. 12, 2010 photo shows Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan, walking in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, 38 kilometers (24 miles) southwest of Paris. A French parliamentary panel will recommend Tuesday a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in public areas from hospitals to schools but will stop short of pressing for the garb to be outlawed in the street, the panel's president says. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

President Plans Federal Budget Freeze, Texting as a Parenting Tool, at Home, French Report Urges Ban on Face Veils in Public, Is the Next Real Estate Bubble in Pakistan?, ‘Trout Fishing In America’ Revisited

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(From left) Chad Kimbler, Mark Gerolami, Julio Appling and Liz Chibucos of The Student Loan. (Arian Stevens)

Surfing the Brown Wave, The Rise & Fall of Haiti, Gaza’s Economy, A Year Later, Foreclosures Create Obstacle in 2010 Census, State Department Sends Bands Abroad for Musical Diplomacy

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How Will Supreme Court Campaign Spending Decision Shape Future Elections?, Is Oil Over?, A Collector Sees America’s History in Vintage Smoking Stands, A look at the Latest Sports News With Bill Littlefield

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A customer stand at the counter at Unitransfer, a money transfer company, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. Cash transfers worth $1.8 billion annually to Haitians from relatives living in the U.S. and elsewhere have slowed to a trickle following the earthquake. Haiti's banks have been closed since last week's earthquake, leaving people with few options to obtain much-needed cash.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

The Browning of America?, A Look at Addiction in America, Maine’s Thomas College Guarantees Students Will Find Jobs, Banks in Haiti Slowly Reopen and Process Money Transfers, Celebrating Guitarist Django Reinhardt

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Brown Victory Means New Day in D.C. and in Massachusetts, Republican Senator Judd Gregg on What’s Next for Health Reform, California Braces for Third in Series of Storms, Doctor in Haiti Tells of Makeshift Medical Care Amid Aftershocks, Painting Art Along a Longitude

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Massachusetts Voters Head to the Polls, Obama’s #2 for Drug Policy Calls for Treating Addiction like Chronic Illness, Private Firms Take up Job of Rescue and Security in Haiti, A Conversation with Guitarist and Composer Julian Lage

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A woman cries as she sings at the Haitian Church of the Nazarene in Boston yesterday (Andrew Phelps/WBUR)

Massachusetts Senate Race, Scrambling for Health Care Reform, Is the Fairness Doctrine Ancient History, Haitians Wait for Word in Boston, Positive Outlook Among Black Americans, Hurt Locker

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A dead body is brought out from a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)

Haiti-U.S. Relations, Texting Help to Haiti, Financial Crisis Commission Hearings, Desperation from Port-au-Prince, Bees in Appalachia, Mexico-centric Indie Rock

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A man mourns during the funeral of his 3-year-old daughter who died in Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. An earthquake measuring more than 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday leaving thousands dead. (AP)

Close Massachusetts Senate Race Catches Democrats Off Guard, Doctors Worry Generic and Brand Name Drugs Aren’t Interchangeable, Aid Worker in Haiti Reflects on Country in Need, Investors Discuss Clean Energy Sector, Jazz Musician Pat Metheny Plays Instruments By Remote Control

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Bankers Scrutinized Over Financial Meltdown, Aid Organizations and Haitian-Americans Mobilize Resources for Earthquake Recovery, New Poll Finds Afghans More Optimistic about Country, Personal Scandals Rock Politics in Northern Ireland

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President Mulls Tax On Wall Street, Double Agents, ‘Necessity Defense’ in Tiller Trial, Officials Brace for 3rd Wave of Swine Flu, Finally Freedy

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Congress Returns, Lives in North Korea, Late Night Musical Chairs, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

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85,000 Jobs Lost in December, American Buffalo, Airport Security, Rehab for Terrorists, Looking for the Green

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Airline Bomber Report Will ‘Shock’, Report on The Long War–on Cancer, Nigerian President’s Absence, Snowboarder Kevin Pearce Suffers Brain Injury, Dude, Where’s My Flying Car?

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Senator Dodd Rules out Re-Election Bid, Red Intel versus White Intel, Troops’ Home Away From Home, Will the 21st Century be Another American Century?

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Intelligence Roundup, Bringing Healthy Foods to Inner Cities, Are L.E.D.’s Too Cool?, Dave Rawlings

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Yemen, Prostitution and “John School,” Google Phone, Criminal Trial for Plane Bomb Suspect, Ambrose Bierce

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The State of Airline Security, Garrison Keillor, Director James Cameron, Food of the Decade, Sensitive Female Chord Progression

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Intelligence Failures, The End of The Decade, Champagne under the Microscope, Films on Ty Burr’s Best Of List, Blue Moon Gazing

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Intelligence Failures, Penelope Leach, Arson Investigation in Western Massachusetts, Editor and Publisher Folds, Best Sports Books of 2009

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Year in Review with Joe Klein, Revolutionary Ebrahim Yazdi’s Detention in Iran, The Irish Economy, A Young Man Joins the Army and Grows Up, The Economy in Cartoons

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RECENT SHOWS
A protestor holds an American flag and sign during the tax-day rally on the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party. (AP)

NY Town Vies for 9/11 Trial, Student’s Suicide Raises Concerns Over Bullying Prevention, Tea Party Convention Kicks Off, The Life and Times of the NFL’s Bert Bell, Music From ‘Who Dat’ Nation

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A man drives a Toyota Motor Corp.'s "Prius Plug-in Hybrid" during a test drive event at a Toyota facility in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009.  (AP)

Scott Brown Jetting to Washington, Using the Airwaves for Political Force, Car Talk, Can Wikipedia Keep Growing?, ‘Love Letters and Some Not So Lovely Letters’

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RECENT STORIES
Matenwa 1st and 2nd graders with 'Mother Tongue Books' from Fayerweather.

Here & Now’s George Hicks visits the Fayerweather Street School in Cambridge, Mass., which has a sister school in Haiti. In the “Mother Tongue Books” project, students at each school write books which are translated and exchanged. We’ll find out how these schools have connected before and after the earthquake.

(Friday, January 29, 2010)
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In this photo released by MINUSTAH, an injured youth is attended by medics in a field hospital at the Jordanian battalion's base in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The U.N. Security Council approved extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12. (AP/MINUSTAH)

We speak with Dr. Evan Lyon, who is working in Haiti and tells of being forced to do amputations with a hack saw bought from the hardware store because of a shortage in medical supplies.

(Wednesday, January 20, 2010)
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NOTES & UPDATES

Welcome to our newest listeners in Orlando, FL, Chicago, IL, Morris, IL and Chesterton, IN! In the past few months we’ve been joined by new stations in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

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Some recent stories we thought you’d enjoy- from our conversation with oncologist Jerome Groopman about the status of the war on cancer, to accordion champion Cory Pesaturo.

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Here & Now producers share their favorite music, books and websites.

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Looking for a book for the young person in your life? We share our favorites.

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